Waiting for sprouts - tick tock |
Leaping from the soil |
Tomato Sprouts |
Ready, Set, Grow! |
No peppers or eggplant breaking the soil yet |
Got it covered |
And by tonight, those little boogers are stretching out. You can see the ones closest to you are reaching toward the sunlight in the window. Tomorrow I plan to reposition them on a shelf in the laundry room with a grow lamp over them. You've got to be careful as they will continue to grow to the sun and get tall and "leggy". When they're like that they are weak and fall over. When you finally plant them in the soil in the garden, you can bury them almost up to their first leaves in the soil, which makes them stronger.
They are taking off! |
The leaves you see above aren't the true leaves. They are called cotyledons. They don't get their first true leaves until a little later. When I see those first true leaves, that lets me know it is time to transplant the two or three little tomato plants growing in one section of each container into their own cup.
So being the plant nerd that I am, I counted the baby tomato plants and count 78 plants! Now realistically, I won't get all those to maturity. Some will die and some I'll give away, but that is a nice starting point and if the Good Lord is willing, we'll have plenty tomatoes for cooking, canning, and eating, making me think of the verse below:
"Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold." Mark 4:8
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